Internships abroad

• Define your internship project by making a personal assessment of your skills and experience. Your project should be consistent with your studies, your aspirations and your professional and personal goals.
• Start your search at least six months in advance. Prospecting, response times, administrative formalities and organizing your stay all take time.
• Check out the growth sectors in each country to find out whether your internship application is likely to be successful.
• Adapt your application to the country’s cultural practices.
• Take advantage of the services offered by the Academics and University Life Office (PFVU) to help you lead your job search: CV assessment, free workshops to prepare for job interviews, information about new recruitment methods…
• Consult useful brochures:
  • Euro-working (by Eurodesk)
  • Internships in Europe (by Euroguidance)
  • Guide to student internships in France and abroad (by MESRI)

• Consult the list of organizations where former students have carried out their internships. You can search by field of study to send unsolicited applications. Tip: if an organization operates in the industrial or food sector, don’t forget that you can probably apply there for an internship in communications, marketing, sales, consulting, IT, management…
•  Join the TEAMS Partir à l’étranger (Going abroad) group, where offers from our partner universities are posted.

• UBE Career Center
• Erasmusintern
• France Alumni
• Union des Français de l’étranger
• Emploi.org
• Kap’Stages
• Internships in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ)
• Working in England
• Jobted
• Franco-Spanish Friendship Association
• Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ)
• Placement Slovakia
• Search also for similar organizations in your own country which may provide possibilities and guidance for the country you would like to go.

Use search engines and company directories to find organizations in your sector to which you’d like to send your CV and cover letter.

• Europages: database covering 36 countries.
• WAYP: yellow pages for all countries.
• Emploi.org: links to company directories.
• Trésor-International: list of French companies operating abroad.
• Alliance Française: list of French language teaching establishments abroad.
• CCI France International: groups and contact information for 120 French international CCI’s (Chamber of Commerce and Industry) in 95 countries.
• Search also for similar databases created by your home country.
• Free search on a search engine: enter keywords in the language of the country with the theme and a geographical location (city, region). Example: a second-year master’s student in Art History is looking for an internship in a museum in Belgium: “Bruxelles musées art contemporain“. Don’t forget to use search engines in the local language.

As part of the FORTHEM Alliance, internships are available in the regions of our partner universities.

FORTHEM actions, financially supported by the European Union and the Agence Nationale de Recherche (French National Research Agency), should enable you to take advantage of the schemes in place and carry out mobility within the partner universities, with full or partial funding from the University of Burgundy.

Co-funded by the European Union

If you have an internship to complete as part of your university course program, and you decide to do it abroad, you may be eligible for a grant from the Erasmus+ program, which also supports international internships.

Co-financed by the European Union.

Internships in French embassies are internships with stipend offered by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and can take place in a central administration, as part of a diplomatic mission (political chancellery, press office, cooperation and cultural action service, consular service) or in a consular post.

To apply:

• visit the France Diplomatie website, where you’ll find detailed information on the embassy internship scheme, practical advice, requirements and instructions on how to apply;
• consult the Place de l’apprentissage et des stages (PASS) portal for internship offers and download the information sheet for the offer you are interested in;
• fill in the application form in active PDF format and send it to the internship coordinator at the International Office at Université Bourgogne Europe so that he/she can complete the section reserved for the sending institution;
• the International Office will return this duly completed document to you, and you will then be able to submit your application as indicated in the offer;
• you will be informed by e-mail whether your application has been accepted or rejected. If your application is accepted, you will receive an e-mail from your future host organization with instructions on how to validate your internship;
• contact the International Office again to prepare the validation of your internship.

If you have any questions, please contact the International Office at Université Bourgogne Europe :  international.internships@ube.fr.

If you are a foreign national, check before applying that as a non-French national you are eligible.

European institutions offer both paid and unpaid internships. The timetable is fixed, and applications must be submitted online several months in advance. Before applying, make sure you are aware of the recruitment conditions, which are often higher than Bachelor’s level.

• European Commission
• European Parliament
• European Employment Services
• Council of the European Union
• Court of Justice of the European Union
• European Court of Auditors
• European Economic and Social Committee
• European Committee of the Regions
• Council of Europe
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

International organizations and agencies: United Nations, UNESCO…

FLE.fr: specialized site with internship offers for French as a foreign language (FLE) students at the master’s level.

Contact: Arthur JOYEUX, Language Sciences Department, Letters and Philosophy Faculty.

After their second or third year, IUT students can take an additional year called DUETI (Diplôme Universitaire d’Études Technologiques Internationales), which enables them to do an internship abroad.